Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:15339 comp.sys.amiga.tech:2 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: IPC: Where to look for DDE article Message-ID: <44057@sun.uucp> Date: 3 Mar 88 19:06:45 GMT References: <7335@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.tech Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 32 Keywords: tools, IPC, InterProgram Communication [Note I'm trying to move the discussion to comp.sys.amiga.tech] In article <7335@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> pete@violet.berkeley.edu () writes: ->With an integrated monster, you're stuck with the notions of those who ->designed the thing: with modules, just chuck out the ones that don't suit ->and (hopefully!) replace them with better ones from someone else. All that ->the programs have to have is a common language of interaction. This is a killer problem, I have a copy of AREXX on order so I will be able to realisticly evaluate it's suitability for a task communication language. Unfortunately, unless someone can spring a fairly complete system on the world fully formed the bickering about what needs to go in will be intolerable. One of the things I have learned is that for every person who has a voice in the 'standard' the time to agreement is cut in half. With all of Usenet participating we would be lucky to get agreement in 2060 :-). So in the meantime lets generate some ideas of what needs to be accomplished. -> ... There is a certain operating system ->that goes by the name of "Windows" that happens to have buried in it a ->thing called "DDE" (Dynamic Data Environment). Strangely it doesn't seem ->to have had much publicity yet -- I've only come across one article (in the ->January issue of Personal Computer World -- which may be hard to come by on ->this side of the Atlantic). There has been at least one other, I know, by ->Bill Gates himself, but I can't remember where. [Chuck McManis, you were ->the one who brought that to our attention -- where was it?] In the Computer Currents article on interprocess communication. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.